From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZrsS-0005ho-Vy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:55:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCBA31C02E; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90BE21C02E for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD17DEC41 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:51:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id iiENDrHMTt+j for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:51:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A24CDDEC19 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:51:16 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:51:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <4E0376AE.3080905@coolmail.se> In-Reply-To: <4E0376AE.3080905@coolmail.se> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106232251.15880.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 36ce0858006c05467dac3036ed445a5c On Thursday 23 June 2011 18:23:58 pk wrote: > On 2011-06-22 19:36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > It's a programming language. You know, C, C++, stuff like that. > > Except that it's a zombie-relict from the 1950's that refuses to die > > because people still programming in it are too lazy to learn a proper, > > more modern language :-P > > It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain niche areas > (hpc, numerical computing etc.) where "modern" languages doesn't cut > it... :-) "FORmula TRANslator". it keeps your lights on, as likely as not. Last I looked, electricity power grids were kept alive with fortran doing the calculations. Mind you, I am going back a little way. -- Rgds Peter